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Germany plans to fast-track deportations of failed asylumseekers The German Interior Ministry on Sunday confirmed plans tofacilitate and accelerate deportations of failed asylum-seekersalong with those who should have their asylum requests processed in another EU country under the so-called Dublin rules. One of the measures submitted to state authorities is bolstering asylum-seekersʼ night-time reporting requirements. Another would implement a chip system to record when asylum-seekers pick up their mail to ensure they have received a deportation order. Such systems are already in use in the states of Hesse and Lower Saxony. Others include securing "no-name bookings" on flights so that a seat can still be used by a potential deportee if the original failed asylum-seeker is unable to make the flight. It provides authorities with more flexibility to use reserved seats on flights, according to the ministry.
German economy minister moots tax cuts amid slowing economy Germany needs to introduce tax cuts and other measures to secure long-term economic growth, Economy Minister Peter Altmaier said in an interview on Sunday. "We need clarity about relief for employees and the economy, such as the stepby-step reduction in the solidarity surcharge for everyone, less bureaucracy and more innovation," he told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. Employees in Germany currently pay the solidarity surcharge as an additional tax to fund reunification projects in states in the former East Germany. Altmaier also said the government wants to ensure that contributions to social security donʼt go beyond 40 percent of a personʼs gross salary. Ministers are also pushing for corporations to face a lower tax burden.
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Emmanuel Macron calls for unified Europe in Bundestag address His visit came on Germanyʼs annual war remembrance day
In a speech to Germanyʼs parliament, French President Emmanuel Macron has called for a new Franco-German alliance to equip Europe for future challenges.
Israelʼs Benjamin Netanyahu refuses to call fresh elections amid growing pressure The Israeli prime minister said it would be "irresponsible" to call for fresh elections after his defense minister resigned. But he faces an uphill battle in securing support from his governmentʼs coalition partners. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday remained defiant in the face of growing pressure to call fresh elections, saying it would be "irresponsible" to do so at such a critical juncture. Netanyahu is under pressure to call fresh electionsafterhis defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman of the Yisrael Beitenu party, resignedover a controversial ceasefire deal duringone of the worst escalations of violencebetween Israel and Islamist militants
in Gaza. Before his Sunday speech, Netanyahu met with Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, who leads the centerright Kulanu party, which holds 10 seats in parliament.The finance ministerʼs office said the meeting ended "without results" and that Netanyahu and Kahlon "agreed to meet later in the week."Netanyahuʼs coalition government holds a one-seat majority after former Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman resigned and took his right-wing Yisrael Beitenu party with him.Netanyahu is seeking to solidify his support from other right-of-center parties in his coalition to continue governing, including Education Minister Naftali Bennett of the Jewish Home party.
Can autonomous cars have a moral conscience? A study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) published in the journal Naturetriggered an animated debate both on social media and also within DWʼs science team here in Bonn. Five of our editors and authors give their personal viewpoints about the study and its impacts on us all. In this debate over"Moral Machines,"the question of who a driverless car hits
and who it avoids isnʼt as interesting to me as how do we decide who is saved within the car? I once heard that an analysis of traffic accidents showed that the only drivers who save the person in their passenger seats are mothers swerving to save their children — not a spouse, not a friend, not even a father. This is, of course, not our morals at play, but our instincts.
APEC leaders fail to agree on joint statement amid US-China tensions The 21 nations at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Port Moresby were unable to bridge their differences on trade and come up with a final communique on Sunday. It was the first time leaders had failed to make a joint declaration in the forumʼs 29-year history. Instead, chair Papua New Guinea said it would issue a formal closing statement in the coming days. The twoday summit highlightedgrowing divisions between the US and China as they compete for greater influence in the South Pacific region. "The entire world is worried" about tensions between China and the US, PNG Prime Minister Peter OʼNeill told reporters as the summit closed.
Protester killed in French ʼyellowvestʼ road blockades A motorist hit and killed a protester in southeastern France during Saturdayʼs nationwide demonstrations against rising fuel prices, Franceʼs interior minister said. More than 400 people were injured, 14 of them seriously, while police made over 150 arrests. The "yellow-vest" movement called for activists wearing highvisibility jackets to block motorway exits, fuel depots and roundabouts in hundreds of events planned across France.
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Police identify source of deadly Novichok nerve agent in UK deaths British police announced Friday that they found a bottle containing the Novichok nerve agent in the home of one of the victims of a nerve agent poisoning in Wiltshire last month. "On Wednesday, 11 July, a small bottle was recovered during searches of Charlie Rowleyʼs house in Amesbury," police said in a statement. The statement said scientists from Porton Down defense laboratory confirmed the bottle contained the Novichok nerve agent, the same poison used against Sergei Skripal and his daughter earlier this year. "Further scientific tests will be carried out to try and establish whether it is from the same batch that contaminated Sergei and Yulia Skripal in March," the force said, adding that a link to the Skripals remained "a main line of enquiry for police." Dawn Sturgess died in a hospitalon Sunday after exposure to the nerve agent. Her partner, Rowley, isstill in critical condition, but has regained consciousness. The Foreign Office said on Friday it had invited independent technical experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons early next week "to independently confirm the identity of the nerve agent."
FIFA president attempting to sell entire FIFA rights
Contentious gas drilling starts in Cyprus T-Mobile amid Turkish threats reports
cybersecurity incident
With deposits in Europe dwindling and efforts to reduce reliance on Russia, an untapped gas field off the island of Cyprus has gained attention. But political tension in the region may frustrate the controversial drill. The race to exploit huge gas reserves in the Mediterranean is on. But for now, the hunt for the fuel looks more likely to inflame regional tensions. Competing ownership claims to untapped fields fringing the island of Cyprus have sparked a war of words and military moves between countrieswith high stakes in the lucrative energy bonanza. Tensions have heightened, and fears of a showdown loom,
as American energy giant Exxon Mobil begins boring down the seabed of the Mediterranean island this weekend. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has already called for the drilling at Block 10 — southwest of Cyprus — to be scrapped, billing the United States energy giant and other companies from Qatar and the United Kingdom, assisting in the project, "pirates" and "bandits of the sea."
ESA hands over service module to NASA A central module for Americaʼs new Orion spacecraft comes from Europe and was manufactured in Germany. Itʼs a major step in transatlantic cooperation in space exploration. TheOrion spacecraftis NASAʼs most important manned spaceflight project for the coming decades. For the first time since the end of the shuttle flights there will once again be a spaceship with which western space agencies can make themselves independent of the Russian Soyuz capsules. Orion is set to take off in 2020
— initially unmanned — and circumnavigate the moon several times. The project is called "Exploration Mission 1." Later, the spacecraft, also known as the "Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle" (MPCV), will fly to themoon orbital station Deep Space Gatewayand probably evento Mars. Orion thus differs significantly from the smaller space transporters, such as the Dragon 2 from Space-X or the Boeing CST-100 Starliner. These two spaceships, built by private companies on behalf of NASA, will bring astronauts to the International Space Station as early as next year.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino is planning to completely sell all of the sporting federationʼs major rights to a consortium with links to Saudi Arabia, two German media outlets reported on Friday. A joint investigation between daily Süddeutsche Zeitungand public broadcasterWDRfound Infantino had been lying about the intentions of aplanned $25 billiondeal.
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T-Mobile US and its unit Metro PCS told customers that cybersecurity staff found and shut down unauthorized access to certain information on August 20 and immediately reported the matter to authorities. The company added that no financial data, social security numbers or passwords were compromised during the attackon its networks, admitting, though, that other personal information like names, email IDs, phone numbers as well as account numbers or account types (postpaid or prepaid) may have been exposed. T-Mobile said that about 3 percent of its 77 million customers could have been affected (roughly 2 million people potentially affected).
Outcry in Uganda over compulsory HIV test 19-year-old Methia Nalukwago, a student at Makerere University in the capital Kampala, is excited by the proposal to have all students undergo compulsory HIV/AIDS testing. Some students, she says, have been living in denial. "Our friends, we study with them but you look at someone and you are like, ʼare you sure you are not sick or something like that?ʼ Of course you never come out to tell them but you feel it deep down inside you, this person must be sick because of the symptoms that show," Nalukwago told DW. "Compulsory testing for HIV will help us know our HIV status and where we stand." Studies conducted by the Ugandan AIDS Commission show lack of sufficient information among the youth is contributing to an increase of HIV. Jane Were, the head teacher of Forest Hill College in Mukono district located 21 kilometers (13 miles) east of Kampala, said they are grappling with HIV in schools. She said the situation has been made worse by parents who mislead their children on what they are actually suffering from. "We have situations where parents lie to students about these [anti-retroviral] drugs. There are parents who tell children they have other ailments other than HIV," Were said.